Scala Cinema

79 High Street,

Runcorn,
WA7 1AH

The Palace Cinema, Runcorn was completely new in 1913.
The Ordnance Survey map, revised in 1905, shows the site to be empty.
Another source (not repeated here) claims that there was a theatre (1897) on the site. Definitely wrong! That “Urban Myth” came from “Curtains” – one of many mistakes in that publication.
There had been a Victorian theatre nearby, but that’s another story, and it wasn’t even on the same road.